Category Archives: Re-decorating
Designing the Staircase for our Bed & Breakfast in Asheville, North Carolina
June 17, 2012
The addition is finally finished here at the Carolina Bed & Breakfast and the last thing to be completed is actually one of the first things we started working on: the staircase. After exploring every avenue in creating a private … Continue reading
Designing a Staircase for the Carolina Bed & Breakfast
April 18, 2012
If you had told me a year ago that one of the most interesting parts about adding on to our Bed and Breakfast in Asheville would be our trips to lumber yards and iron foundries I would have thought you … Continue reading
Pebble Dash at the Carolina Bed & Breakfast
March 24, 2012
Arriving at our Asheville Bed and Breakfast, guests often ask us about the stucco finish of our bed and breakfast. The more commonly seen smooth surface of stucco is, in this case, studded with small pebbles, giving it an unusual … Continue reading
Scrounger’s Paradise in Asheville, NC
March 18, 2012
Serendipity is one of my favorite words. It means a “happy accident” and encapsulates the random discovery of something useful or good when not really looking for it. Last week, James and I went shopping for a mirror … Continue reading
Changes at the Carolina Bed & Breakfast
February 7, 2012
You may have noticed that we are running an Innkeeper’s Special at the Carolina Bed & Breakfast and been curious as to what we are doing to our inn. These pictures are not meant to scare you but to pique … Continue reading
Spring Cleaning!
March 11, 2011
>No, I am not talking about spring cleaning at the Carolina Bed & Breakfast, I am talking aboutspring cleaning for my blog; or at least for my file of back stories. What follows is a compilation of things which I … Continue reading
Spring (!?) Cleaning at the Carolina Bed & Breakfast
January 28, 2011
>Winter is traditionally the time of year when Innkeepers in Asheville close their inns for cleaning and refurnishing of rooms. And not surprisingly, we are among them. Of course in our eyes, (or at least mine), the need was greater … Continue reading
Snow Days in Asheville
January 10, 2011
>It’s snowing in Asheville, North Carolina. It snowed yesterday and it’s supposed to snow tomorrow. Guests have left early or put off their travel plans until later in the month. (Check our website for our snow cancellation policy). So what’s … Continue reading
A New Sign at the Carolina Bed & Breakfast
August 16, 2010
>The house at 177 Cumberland Avenue, Asheville NC was built in 1901. It has a long history and has passed from being the home of a leading local businessman through a stint as a boarding house and then back to … Continue reading
>The New Kitchen, At Last!
April 7, 2010
>I kept putting off posting these pictures, waiting for “one more thing” to be finished but then I realized it could be next year sometime before everything was perfect so here it is, The Carolina Bed & Breakfast “Almost Finished”. … Continue reading
>Renovations at the Carolina Bed & Breakfast: The Main House
April 7, 2010
>Some of these pictures you will have seen before but here they are in a finished version. The Dining Room curtains and shutters are in (courtesy of Lifestyle Interiors), so no more sun in the face for our morning diners! … Continue reading
>Blue Mountain Stained Glass at the Carolina Bed & Breakfast
March 9, 2010
>The renovations are moving along quickly at the Carolina Bed & Breakfast and we have reached that wonderful part where, instead of taking things out, we are starting to put things in. This morning I made a visit to the … Continue reading
>The Living Rooms are Transformed
February 22, 2010
> After Valentine’s Day Weekend, work started in earnest on the kitchen at the Carolina Bed & Breakfast. Our contractor, Caine, called it “the kitchen demo”; not, as it sounds, a demonstration but a demolition! The walls would come down … Continue reading
>Renovating the Carolina Bed & Breakfast: The Dining Room
January 24, 2010
>The Dining Room before painting The Dining Room with its new color! Many years ago (about 25 to be exact) James and I moved out of a small semi-furnished apartment in Paris and arrived in Hong Kong with a tired … Continue reading
>Facelift for the Carolina Bed & Breakfast
January 16, 2010
>I have been waiting for a sunny day to take and picture and show you the new face of the Carolina Bed & Breakfast, but whenever the sun is out, the painters are scrambling all over the roof and sides … Continue reading
>Carolina Bed & Breakfast: The Great Move In
November 20, 2009
> Here’s the scene: Date: Monday, November 16 Time 12 Noon Location: Carolina Bed & Breakfast Asheville, NC Cast of Players: 2 Inn Owners 1 Assistant Innkeeper 6 Roofers 4 Moving Men 2 Mattress Delivery men 1 Fedex Delivery Truck … Continue reading
